夏 Summer

How this came to mean summer isn’t clear. Presumably summer was associated with a particular dance or festival. Remember as the shape of crossed legs.

米 Rice & America

 

* The kanji for rice lends its old phonetic reading of to mean America. It’s interesting to learn the kanji used to signify countries. I’ll create a post on this soon.

店 Store

A retail establishment selling items to the public.